Job summary
- Main area
- Corporate
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 9
- Contract
- 12 months (12 month fixed term contract)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 357-LN-313-25-QIA622-B
- Employer
- United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospital
- Town
- Lincoln
- Salary
- £109,179 - £125,637 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 21/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Managing Director: East Midlands Acute Providers (EMAP) Network
NHS AfC: Band 9
We recognise that outstanding care can only be delivered through our people. We want to attract people who can help us deliver our vision. We want in return to help people achieve what they wish in their careers in the NHS at ULTH.
We are always keen to welcome highly skilled, committed and compassionate individuals to our hospitals – people who put patients at the heart of everything they do and are ready to help us achieve our vision.
Our values guide everything we do. They are:
- Patient-centred – Putting patients at the heart of everything we do, listening and responding to their needs and wishes.
- Safety – Following ULTH and professional guidelines. Speaking up to make sure patients and staff are safe from harm.
- Excellence – Striving to be the best that we can be. Innovating and learning from others.
- Compassion – Caring for patients and their loved ones in ways we would want for our friends and family.
- Respect – Behaving and using language that demonstrates respect and courtesy to others. Zero tolerance to bullying, inequality, prejudice and discrimination.
If you believe in them too, then you are ready to join the ULTH team.
We’ve taken great pride in building working environments where staff always feel valued, cared for and part of a team. Without doubt this is a challenging yet very rewarding job that is at the centre of health and care in Lincolnshire - making a positive difference to our patients.
Our Trust is situated in the beautiful county of Lincolnshire and is one of the biggest acute hospital trusts in England, serving a population of more than 700,000 people. We provide acute and specialist services to people in Lincolnshire and neighbouring counties. We have an annual income of £710 million (22/23) and we employ nearly 8,600 people.
Our Board have recently agreed a new vision statement – “Outstanding Care Personally Delivered” – stating their ambition for our Trust to be among the best.
We also have a five year Integrated Improvement Plan setting out how we will achieve our strategic objectives, for patients, services, people and partners, the last recognising that our future success depends on our ability to ensure the Lincolnshire healthcare system is successful in achieving its ambition to help people live healthier lives and provide care closer to where people live.
Our latest CQC report increased our ratings for being effective and well-led from ‘Requires Improvement’ to ‘Good’. Our rating for caring remained as ‘Good’.
This is in recognition of the huge amount of work that our amazing staff have done to improve the quality of care for our patients in recent years.
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated.
So, what is in it for you?
- Flexible working: Depending on the needs of your role, we will consider requests for flexible and/or part-time working for whatever reason you should need it. We recognise flexible working will not look the same for everyone, because it depends on the nature of the role and the needs of the individual.
Types of flexibility could include:
- Part-time - less than 37.5 hours per week.
- Off-site/remote working - working from home or other sites for part or all the week.
- Compressed hours – usually full-time hours but over fewer days or shifts.
- Staggered hours – having different start and finish times.
- Set shift patterns – to allow for predictability
- NHS Pension: A generous and flexible pension scheme with contributions from us as your employer fully protected against inflation and guaranteed by the government
- Annual Leave: Starting at 27 days a year, rising to 33 days after 10 years plus eight bank holidays (for staff covered by Agenda for Change) For Medical Workforce positions (Consultant and Specialty Doctor), the full-time entitlement commences from 32 days per annum. For all other Medical Workforce positions, the full-time entitlement commences from 27 days per annum.
- Bank working: The chance to work extra hours at enhanced rates and we will pay you weekly too, ideal if your income needs a quick boost.
In addition, there is more.
- Family & Childcare: Including on-site nurseries at Lincoln County Hospital and Pilgrim Hospital Boston, maternity, paternity, adoption & shared parental leave following a set period of employment.
- Health & Wellbeing: including counselling, mental health first aid, physiotherapy, eye tests.
- Learning & Development including Lincolnshire Talent Academy, leadership training, medical education, clinical education, Lincolnshire clinical research
- Financial support and benefits including Cycle2Work, car lease scheme, home electronics. Free on-site parking and free tea and coffee and the ability to save and borrow through your salary.
- Rewards & Recognition including staff awards, long service awards, retirement awards, examples of excellence and staff lottery.
Enjoy a better quality of life in one of the UK’s most welcoming counties. Whether you’re taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire welcomes everyone. Discover a range of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that’s friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life. Visit beinlincolnshire.com to find out more.
Job overview
The Managing Director for the East Midlands Acute Providers (EMAP) network collaborative will play an essential role in this East Midlands wide system development by supporting the development of our formal Provider Collaborative. The Managing Director will drive the design, implementation and delivery of the EMAP agreed priorities and support the collaborative to stay focused on its vision.
The role will be hosted by United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and will be accountable to the EMAP CEO steering group.
Main duties of the job
The predominant duty within this role will be to support the ongoing development of the East Midlands Acute Provider Network, ensuring that the mechanisms for delegated responsibility from provider organisations are in place and the intended outcomes around performance, transformation and system governance are delivered.
The post holder will be expected to exemplify behaviour that promotes collaborative ways of working and integrated service delivery with a personal drive to increase the health and wellbeing of our East Midlands population.
Working for our organisation
Lincoln Hospital is a thriving university city and with the opening of the medical school, it provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service.
United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust has been granted teaching hospital status, after demonstrating evidence to significant teaching commitment. From now on it will be known as United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
Pilgrim Hospital is situated in beautiful countryside and serves the communities in the South Lincolnshire area. It provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service.
Grantham and District Hospital serves the communities of Grantham and the local area. It provides ambulatory paediatric and accident and emergency services.
Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS) and United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULHT) have come together in a Group arrangement, with the goal of improving the care provided to patients across the county.
This will not constitute a formal merger of the two organisations, but will bring the Trusts together under a single Board and Executive Leadership Team, with the goal of improving the care that is provided to patients both in the community and in hospitals across Lincolnshire. Both Trusts will retain their separate statutory names and legal obligations.
The Group will be known as Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group (LCHG)
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
· Delivery of the key EMAP priorities/programmes
· Support the steering group and priority workstreams to develop effective communication, including engagement and involvement in to and out of the network.
· Ensure the approach of the collaborative wherever possible is supportive to individual organisational goals so that the value and purpose of involvement is clear with motivation for maintaining involvement during times of conflict, tension and controversy
· Support the Steering group Chair to ensure the appropriate governance systems, processes and structures are in place to support delivery of the Collaborative objectives and manage identified risks.
· Understand, respect and value the individual partner organisations and shape and influence co-produced new ways of working that promote and build trust and confidence in the work of the collaborative.
· Ensure escalation processes are in place to the steering group for performance and transformational issues and support their management
· Support the development of a future model for provider collaboration that takes account of current structures and understands how the associated functions can be taken forward in a more integrated model.
· Working with colleagues to ensure the collaborative is focussed on the agreed areas of priority and that appropriate escalation methods are in place both in relation to transformation and general performance issues within system operational delivery.
· Ensure there are effective lines of communication between providers to create opportunity for sharing of good practice, information and pathway design.
· Work with colleagues who attend the steering group to develop wider Collaborative responses to national policy areas, where appropriate.
· Develop and manage a risk register associated with the provider collaborative that identifies key areas of risk to the delivery of our stated intent and provides mitigation where possible
· Represent the collaborative at local and national meetings, as appropriate
· Manage the interface with external stakeholders including NHSE, Arden and Gem, other provider collaboratives and Integrated Care Systems.
· Leading the EMAP Programme Management Office, once established.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to PHD level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level within the NHS
- Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement
- Should have an appreciation of the changing relationship between the Department of Health, NHSE national team, Regional Office of NHSE and individual provider organisations.
- Evidence of continued professional and managerial development.
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive, successful track record of leadership and delivery at a senior level in a complex environment, in health care.
- Experience of leading transformational change in a challenging resource environment
- Excellent track record of working in partnership across a range of organisations to achieve significant change and improve service outcomes for the local population
- Experience of holding stakeholders to account for delivery of plans and priorities.
- Significant in-depth experience of organisation-wide policy development, interpreting relevant legislative and other requirements.
- Able to demonstrate an understanding of the history, complexities, opportunities and risks of collaboration in this geographical area
- Experience of managing and maintaining effective relationships with a variety of stakeholders and able to build alliances and networks
- Understanding, managing and leading difficult decisions within the complex governance across organisations
- Understanding of the planning, scheduling and risk management of operational systems within a complex environment.
Knowledge/Skills
Essential criteria
- Leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning with highly developed political skills
- Plans and organises a broad range of complex activities, formulating and adjusting plans to reflect changing circumstances
- Inputs to strategic plans across systems and within organisations
- Ability to work under pressure and to tight and often changing deadlines
- Skills for delivering results through managing through others and using a range of levers in the absence of direct line management responsibility
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office with intermediate keyboard skills
- Ability to provide and receive, convey and present highly complex, sensitive and/or contentious information to large groups, responding openly to questions to ensure full understanding and engagement
- High level analytical skills and the ability to draw qualitative and quantitative data from a wide range of sources and present in a clear concise manner
- Highly developed leadership skills with the ability to enthuse, motivate and involve individuals and teams, and have them understand both System wide and local performance expectations.
- High level critical thinking skills
- Practical experience of facilitating organisational and cultural change within organisations, departments and team
- Ability to develop and maintain communication with people on complex matters, issues and ideas and/or in complex situations
- Demonstrates sound judgement in the absence of clear guidelines or precedent, seeking advice as necessary from more senior management when appropriate
Personal attributes and values
Essential criteria
- A compassionate and visible leader who is committed to good staff experience and patient outcomes and to delivering these as part of a senior team.
- Gives confidence that inspires, empowers and builds effective teams.
- Resilient and adaptable to circumstances.
- Commitment to developing culture of honesty, openness and collaboration.
- Evidence of self-awareness and mindfulness
- Visionary.
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sameedha Rich-Mahadkar
- Job title
- Director of Improvement & Integration
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Simon Barton - Deputy Chief Executive @ University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust
Or Victoria Holden, Deputy Director of Partnerships, ULTH
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